Project Crossbow: Networking Virtualization and Resource Partitioning
Crossbow is a networking virtualization technology being developed in solaris networking group.
Crossbow's virtualization limits to bare minimum kernel resources while providing strict isolation between network applications providing exclusive IP stack instance for a zone and exclusive access to a single VNIC (carved out of physical NICs).
This helps in a way such as no single traffic on one virtual machine can monopolize the entire NIC but get limited to VNICs.
Further Using L2, L3,L4 FLOW classification capabilities, users can keep their important traffic such as billing and accounting isolated vs. client's data traffic, voice traffic. Isolation of services is very important for virtualization,
when there are no separate instances of OS (execution enviornments).
Crossbow's light-weight virtualization surpass many virtualization innovations.
In July 2007, Our project Crossbow won 2007 Chairman's Award for innovation!
We have renamed it as "Networking Virtualization and Resource Partitioning"
recently.
later,
Posted at 12:03AM Dec 02, 2007 by ddeepti in General |